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Vikash has over 15 years of professional experience in the Technology industry, and he loves solving complex problems at scale. He has a bachelor’s degree in Technology and MBA in Marketing & Strategy. He tried different professions before discovering his passion for Product Management. He started as a Software Engineer at Accenture, then worked as a Consulting Manager at Cognizant, Sr. Product Manager at Amazon (Fortune 2 Company), Principal Product Manager at Flavorcloud and currently he is a Director of Product Management at Walmart (Fortune 1 Company). He is very passionate about mentoring and coaching his team, bringing out the best in them at work and making a difference by building products customer love!

Jaladhi is a UX design leader with 17 years of experience in delivering products people love. He leads the Product Design, User Research, and Technical & UX Writing teams at Braze, a customer engagement platform. Before joining Braze, he was leading an amazing team of designers across LinkedIn Feed, Video, Creators, News, Events, and Search. He is passionate about Design’s role in driving innovation and delivering outsize value to the business as well as building a collaborative and growth-oriented design culture to allow people to create their best work.

Raghu has over 22 years of experience leading technology initiatives across consumer internet, retail and eAuction; conceiving and implementing technology products and high transactional platforms for Internet Retailer top 100 websites.  For the last couple of years, he was leading the digital transformation initiatives at CapitalOne, Target and JCPenney, moving from monolith packaged eCommerce solutions (Oracle/IBM) to home-grown microservices, cloud based architecture.
Currently he is leading the engineering for enteprise Personalzation/Experiementation, Content Management, Enterprise ClickStream and analytics platforms. In his previous job, he spent all his time working on every facet of Retail from eCommerce, Enterprise Price/Promo systems, Item Management Systems,Assortment Planning, Inventory management systems for Internet retailer top 100 retailers. Raghu holds a Masters degree in Computer applications, India. He started his career as a software engineer and throughout his career, has held a wide range of roles as lead engineer, Architect, Engineering Manager, Capability Product Owner.

Erin O'Donnell Howard, Executive Director of Product and Design at Charles River Labs joins us to share her unique journey of leading this research & life sciences org through a huge design transformation where she not only built a new design function but also built a design system ground up with this new team. 
 
Erin unpacks how she springboarded a design system keeping the need for consistent design for the various products at CRL at the center, adding the fundamental componentization and tokenization to a living and breathing process with user stories that translate from the design boards to the engineers code base much quickly. Driving excitement among the teams to achieving operational efficiencies so designers can focus on the actual solution and the experience they are after, away from the noise of wasting time redesigning small reusable components.
 
If you are wondering if your org is ripe to execute a Design System or how to measure the performance of your current design system, this episode is for you.
 

Dan Reber, Sr. AVP Healthcare Solutions Architect at EXL, a business evolution partner who tailor solutions to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence to their customers. Dan shares his journey from digitizing the manual spreadsheet data into his first dashboard and the evolution of dashboards as products keeping the persona user matrix with information like number of users, frequency of logins, retention rate, drop off analysis and more at the center of these designs. Dan is excited to drive more AI and ML solutions into the future of Healthcare systems to make a positive impact on serving the needs of their customers.

Mark is a design and innovation leader, currently with Visa, with over 20 years diverse background in Experience and Innovation Strategy, Integrated New Product Design, Service Design, User Experience, Ethnographic Research, Design Thinking and Design Management. He helps organizations envision and plan the future while designing and executing an innovative, sustainable product and service portfolio.  

He specializes in connecting business goals to user experience, product, and innovation strategy, while forming and leading teams and collaborations ensuring successful implementation. He has extensive experience consulting for, and managing teams within, top-tier brands delivering validated insights and breakthrough ideas grounded in both qualitative and quantitative approaches.